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i used to chair the funding of fema, so i'm a fema reformer. we practiced the three r. readiness, response, and now recovery. readiness,ic it worked. i think it worked in maryland. governor o'malley with the insistence we were ready -- we were ready and resilient. we all said -- punishment on ocean city. that protected $2 billion worth of property because we spend public money to protect private property. that worked. but now we're in to the recovery phase and this, and the response was great. we had heroic people. we were hit by a hurricane, on the shore and coming up our bay all the way to the inner harbor of the port of baltimore and hit by the blizzard in the western part of our state, which is the appalachians. we needed the national guard to respond. we had state troopers and other emergency responders on snow mobiles going in to take care of the elderly and get them out to safety. we did all of that. so now here we are. and now i'm going to just quick word about the shore. you heard what they said. [inaudible] rich in tradition and pride. hard working in -- [inau
i used to chair the funding of fema, so i'm a fema reformer. we practiced the three r. readiness, response, and now recovery. readiness,ic it worked. i think it worked in maryland. governor o'malley with the insistence we were ready -- we were ready and resilient. we all said -- punishment on ocean city. that protected $2 billion worth of property because we spend public money to protect private property. that worked. but now we're in to the recovery phase and this, and the response was great....
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the amendment would require fema to actually change the indicator by which fema determines a locality's eligibility for fema public assistance. it would make it much harder for states and local governments in the future to get federal aid after a disaster. it sounds benign, but this is a chokehold on fema for many localities and particularly for larger states like those that we represent. as you know, current per-capita damage thresholds are pegged to the consumer price index, and c.p.i. measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a specific market of basket goods. for new york, the per-capita threshold that has to be reached for a county to be declared a major disaster area is $1.37. my colleague's amendment would peg the per-capita threshold starting in 1986. you would have to have such enormous damage in so many localities to get money, and in effect it would double the per-damage threshold needed to be declared a disaster area. in every state, we have asked when we watch as disasters occur and we keep our fingers crossed to see that the federal go
the amendment would require fema to actually change the indicator by which fema determines a locality's eligibility for fema public assistance. it would make it much harder for states and local governments in the future to get federal aid after a disaster. it sounds benign, but this is a chokehold on fema for many localities and particularly for larger states like those that we represent. as you know, current per-capita damage thresholds are pegged to the consumer price index, and c.p.i....
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there are constraints on what fema can do. it'll stop them from rebuilding a homeowner that is waiting for a decision about whether they will have more than $31,000 to rebuild literally cannot get on with their lives but there is not a decision about whether the resources would be available. they had access to assistance from the small business administration. they are limited. what we often see is that because they have loan programs the smaller businesses because the neighborhoods are destroyed or deeply damaged, their prospects are shaky. supporting the loan is going to be impossible. we have thousands of small businesses that are stopped in their tracks. these are decisions that need to be made literally in the next few weeks i would also just at that this goes beyond those types of decisions. he could attest to how important the economy of the shore is in new jersey. whether or not we're able to move quickly enough to restore the small businesses for the summer season and is the decision if we do not have a supplemental i
there are constraints on what fema can do. it'll stop them from rebuilding a homeowner that is waiting for a decision about whether they will have more than $31,000 to rebuild literally cannot get on with their lives but there is not a decision about whether the resources would be available. they had access to assistance from the small business administration. they are limited. what we often see is that because they have loan programs the smaller businesses because the neighborhoods are...
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claim, fema offered only $2,800. you can imagine, he doesn't have any choices right now. his only choice actually is to declare bankruptcy if he's able to rebuild his home. and this is a man who lived through the terrors of 9/11, represented our nation in iraq, with courage and dignity, and now he's fighting for his own life to save his family and his home. these are store res that you've heard so many times. in your own state and your own community. i want to thank you for understanding how important this is and letting my colleagues and i all testify. what we new have to do is begin to rebuild our state. we've been hit very hard across the hudson valley, a-- across the five boroughs. as you know, families, homes are destroyed an their businesses are leveled. but the -- but just like folks from your state, they're tough. they get knocked down by they get back every single time. now we need to focus on how we give them the tools they need to to this. we have over 00,000 homes seriously damaged, more than 265,000 busi
claim, fema offered only $2,800. you can imagine, he doesn't have any choices right now. his only choice actually is to declare bankruptcy if he's able to rebuild his home. and this is a man who lived through the terrors of 9/11, represented our nation in iraq, with courage and dignity, and now he's fighting for his own life to save his family and his home. these are store res that you've heard so many times. in your own state and your own community. i want to thank you for understanding how...
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this is not your grandfather's fema. this is a new fema. we have some new reforms that are authorized in this bill that are going to help the recovery go more quickly, and i'd like to talk about that for just a minute. some of the reforms that are in this bill, this is a reform-minded supplemental, it is drafted to do a more efficient, more effective, and smarter recovery, saving taxpayers money over time. it reauthorizes two expired pilot programs for -- from the post-katrina management reform act, allows the use of money to repair rental housing units and to expedite debris removal procedures. if you have not been a witness to a catastrophic disaster, you cannot imagine the amount of debris generated from either a massive fire or a massive flood. and the old rules that fema operated under were a waste of money, a waste of time and lost opportunity. so we've expedited debris removal. you can't even start rebuilding a community until you can get rid of the debris. it sounds, you know, like common sense, and it is, but there are some bureauc
this is not your grandfather's fema. this is a new fema. we have some new reforms that are authorized in this bill that are going to help the recovery go more quickly, and i'd like to talk about that for just a minute. some of the reforms that are in this bill, this is a reform-minded supplemental, it is drafted to do a more efficient, more effective, and smarter recovery, saving taxpayers money over time. it reauthorizes two expired pilot programs for -- from the post-katrina management reform...
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and fema. and very importantly, allowing nonprofits for the first time to be eligible for economic injury disaster loans. if this in a storm like this the first groups that are going to be turned to is your volunteers, chamber of commerce, your local organizations that were themselves devastated, losing headquarters, losing member, losing staff members, sometimes in loss of life. people have moved away or not living in the community where they lived. it is important get these nonprofit organizations back up. they will become the leaders in the recovery. building on these reforms the 2010 small business reform jobs act allowing a culture businesses to receive economic recovery loans. i hope these will come in handy this time around. so i'm pleased to report the time prime for home loans has been reduced to 74 days. business loans from sandy are averaging 10 days compared to the 66 days in 2005. however, i do think we need to do more in terms of getting money on the ground and we'll share of what
and fema. and very importantly, allowing nonprofits for the first time to be eligible for economic injury disaster loans. if this in a storm like this the first groups that are going to be turned to is your volunteers, chamber of commerce, your local organizations that were themselves devastated, losing headquarters, losing member, losing staff members, sometimes in loss of life. people have moved away or not living in the community where they lived. it is important get these nonprofit...
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>> you pointed out in your opening statement the challenges we have under the fema rules where that fund will only reimburse transit and ageagencio the pre-existing condition. you talked about the faults in new orleans thaving to find a 8-year-old boss to replace a eight-year-old boss. the program allows us to restore the service the public needs -- what is reliable and provides reliable service and modern technology. more importantly, falling on the conversation we had, it also authorizes payments to prevent future disasters, which is why the mitigation estimates were authorized. the other benefit, i believe, that conversation that we had with many agencies after katrina took many wasted months to figure out who owed to what. has a grant the ftsa making relationship we use routinely with all these agencies. we have staff that no these facilities. the most tragic elements of the disaster from sandy -- the south ferry station in lower manhattan and hoboken terminal, facilities that the fta had just but hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in and sustain extraordinary damage -- our sta
>> you pointed out in your opening statement the challenges we have under the fema rules where that fund will only reimburse transit and ageagencio the pre-existing condition. you talked about the faults in new orleans thaving to find a 8-year-old boss to replace a eight-year-old boss. the program allows us to restore the service the public needs -- what is reliable and provides reliable service and modern technology. more importantly, falling on the conversation we had, it also...
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buses fema said they could not buy new buses. they had to buy used buses the same age to replace those buses. these agencies were put in the absurd position of scouring the country trying to find someone who would seldom old buses but with mitigation funding we can pay for a new bus to replace the old one. the same principle applies to rail transit. hoboken pass station was flooded and coming back to service after weeks after the storm, should we put the station back together with the same exact vulnerability to flooding? or should we rebuild in a way that would prevent such extensive flood damage in the future? of course we should rebuild to protect against future storms. it seems to me it is not only common sense but for my friends who are fiscal hawks the reality is is more fiscally responsible to ultimately in sure that we don't have repetitive loss, that we don't have economic consequences, that we don't have human consequences as a result of simply going back to that which was. with a smart investment we can prevent hundred
buses fema said they could not buy new buses. they had to buy used buses the same age to replace those buses. these agencies were put in the absurd position of scouring the country trying to find someone who would seldom old buses but with mitigation funding we can pay for a new bus to replace the old one. the same principle applies to rail transit. hoboken pass station was flooded and coming back to service after weeks after the storm, should we put the station back together with the same...
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based its estimates on the old fema model because they don't work on new models. we've learned that in the health care debate and other debates. so the c.b.o. study is wrong. is just wrong. so those are the three arguments made against it. and none of them really hold up. i say to my colleagues,, if you can find stuff that's not disaster related in here, that's a legitimate argument, and we'll work with you and scour the package more. but on offsets, on mitigation, and on this idea let's just give the money needed for one year and wait and see what happens in the second year, you just can't rebuild an area if you do those things, most of which are counterinterest transit qif. so, mr. president, there are a few more points i want to make. new york has to do several things at once. we have to simultaneously rebuild but we also have to protect against future storms. and to rebuild now makes sense and to protect makes sense. we can either invest in protections now or we'll pay later. that is vital to know. second, i'd make the point that within about two weeks after k
based its estimates on the old fema model because they don't work on new models. we've learned that in the health care debate and other debates. so the c.b.o. study is wrong. is just wrong. so those are the three arguments made against it. and none of them really hold up. i say to my colleagues,, if you can find stuff that's not disaster related in here, that's a legitimate argument, and we'll work with you and scour the package more. but on offsets, on mitigation, and on this idea let's just...
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and fema. and very importantly, allowing nonprofits for the first time to be jible for economic injury disafter loans. if this in a storm like this the first groups that are going to be turned to is your volunteers, chamber of commerce, your local organizations that were themselves devastated, losing headquarters, losing member, losing staff members, sometimes in loss of life. people have moved away or not living in the community where they lived. it is important get these nonprofit organizations back up. they will become the leaders in the recovery. building on these reforms the 2010 small business reform jobs act alloweding a culture businesses to receive economic recovery loans. i hope these will come in handy this time around. so i'm pleased to report the time prime for home loans has been reduced to 74 days. business loans from sandy are averaging 10 days compared to the 66 days in 2005. however, i do think we need to do more in terms of getting money onen the ground and we'll share of wha
and fema. and very importantly, allowing nonprofits for the first time to be jible for economic injury disafter loans. if this in a storm like this the first groups that are going to be turned to is your volunteers, chamber of commerce, your local organizations that were themselves devastated, losing headquarters, losing member, losing staff members, sometimes in loss of life. people have moved away or not living in the community where they lived. it is important get these nonprofit...
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wasn't just happy talk letter after letter and storm after stride in crisis jefferson returned to the fema again and again and again and often the was the only thing you had to hold on to was hope because the fact of the matter as jon adams said was stubborn things and they were always moving in directions of this is what he said later in life. i have observed the march of civilization advancing from the seacoast passing over like a cloud of light increasing our knowledge and improving our condition and where this progress will stop, no one can say and so we move on. thanks very much. [applause] thanks for the delightful talk and i assure the book will be just as good. this will seem like an odd question that at the end you were talking about progress and jefferson's curiosity. he was a francophile. one of the things set in motion was the french revolution. what did he think of that? >> well, as ever it depends on when you ask him. the french revolution he was caught up in many ways in the drama of the early years lafayette and others met at his house and there is some debate about the rol
wasn't just happy talk letter after letter and storm after stride in crisis jefferson returned to the fema again and again and again and often the was the only thing you had to hold on to was hope because the fact of the matter as jon adams said was stubborn things and they were always moving in directions of this is what he said later in life. i have observed the march of civilization advancing from the seacoast passing over like a cloud of light increasing our knowledge and improving our...
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in other words, the left-hand of fema may not know what the right hand is doing. in some cities could receive funding from the same pot for the same thing. host: let's go to order in virginia. caller: good morning. the terrorism the started with 9/11 has seemed to make us become victims. look at the internal terrorism never severed last week. a lot of the house to do with the -- -- we suffered last week. a lot of that has to do with the pollution that our kids suffer killing oriented, should be oriented. host: arthur, you live in california and we saw on this map that california gets the most money for security in initiatives in dhs funds. do you think that california should get a lot of money? do you think the state is the best decision -- and best place to make the decision of what to do with it? caller: yes, in cooperation with the federal level. but you should not have to just create another bureaucracy nabhan not produce results regarding safety, especially internal safety -- that will not produce results regarding safety, especially internal safety. guest: t
in other words, the left-hand of fema may not know what the right hand is doing. in some cities could receive funding from the same pot for the same thing. host: let's go to order in virginia. caller: good morning. the terrorism the started with 9/11 has seemed to make us become victims. look at the internal terrorism never severed last week. a lot of the house to do with the -- -- we suffered last week. a lot of that has to do with the pollution that our kids suffer killing oriented, should be...
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fema wants to make sure that no one runs out of time in looking for help. it already given more than $20 million to storm victims in connecticut. gregg: turning back now to the political fight that's brewing over gun control. the head of the national rifle association, the nra, ripping the media, for blaming guns for the connecticut school shootings. instead nra head, wayne laperriere standing by his call for armed guards in our nation's schools as a way to curb gun violence. take a look at this. >> this is "new york post", a conservative publication, i don't think part of the media conspiracy you talk about, nra loon, bizarre rant over new town. hartford, courrant headline says nra response falls flat. the congressman from the district of newtown, tweeted this, washinging out of another funeral and handed nra transcript, most resvelting -- revolting tone-deaf statement i ever seen. just reaction to harsh reaction to your words? >> if it is crazy to call putting police and armed security in the our schools to protect our children, call me crazy. i tell you
fema wants to make sure that no one runs out of time in looking for help. it already given more than $20 million to storm victims in connecticut. gregg: turning back now to the political fight that's brewing over gun control. the head of the national rifle association, the nra, ripping the media, for blaming guns for the connecticut school shootings. instead nra head, wayne laperriere standing by his call for armed guards in our nation's schools as a way to curb gun violence. take a look at...
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he called fema. fema offered him $2,800. now, this is a man any of us would be proud to call our own son. he lived through 9/11. he went to fight for our count country. he continues public service. and now he's literally in the fight for his own life, for his own family's well being and safety. his only choice currently is bankruptcy. now, americans are watching us and asking, are we going to come together to help these families? will we stand as one body and do the right thing by these families, these communities, these businesses that are just trying to get back on their fe feet? one thing is clear -- there are too many of these stories for any of us to bear. now, after spending time in the communities that were hardest hit, from new york city, to the hudson valley, to long island, i can tell you, the images of the devastation are worse than i've personally ever seen or witnessed. i've spent day after day meeting with families whose lives have been shattered, homes destroyed, like this one. and many of them are worried, be
he called fema. fema offered him $2,800. now, this is a man any of us would be proud to call our own son. he lived through 9/11. he went to fight for our count country. he continues public service. and now he's literally in the fight for his own life, for his own family's well being and safety. his only choice currently is bankruptcy. now, americans are watching us and asking, are we going to come together to help these families? will we stand as one body and do the right thing by these...
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megyn: new jersey governor chris christie telling fema the storm cost $39 billion in damage. new jersey is asking the feds to cover almost all of that. in new york 305,000 homes and 265,000 businesses are destroyed or damaged. governor cuomo is asking for $33 billion to rebuild and $9 billion more to prevent future storm damage. a horrifying story involving the random violence that was once a part of new york city's reputation but is now much more rare. it happened yesterday when a father was shoved in front of a moving subway train by a total stranger and it was all caught on tape. >> people said a panhandler was harassing passengers, and a man wind to the panhandler wind to him to try to calm him down saying you are scaring passengers. as the announcement for the rain came. witnesses say the panhandler picked the man you and physically threw him onto the tracks. >> i was in the back of the platform and the train came to an abrupt -- pulling into the station. next thing you know you heard people yelling, the train was 3/4 into the platform. >> reporter: people began running
megyn: new jersey governor chris christie telling fema the storm cost $39 billion in damage. new jersey is asking the feds to cover almost all of that. in new york 305,000 homes and 265,000 businesses are destroyed or damaged. governor cuomo is asking for $33 billion to rebuild and $9 billion more to prevent future storm damage. a horrifying story involving the random violence that was once a part of new york city's reputation but is now much more rare. it happened yesterday when a father was...
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ups told us that on the east coast lots of potential workers, they took fema positions to help out with sandy recovery. many of those jobs last longer than what ups can offer. experts say that that's also part of the problem, but the fact that people want to hold out for more permanent better paying jobs, but, susan, one other thing here, the issue of filling positions isn't just in lower paying fields. there's currently a big skilled worker shortage, but one consulting group says it's not that there's not workers out there. it's that companies, they're being too selective about who they hire, and they don't pay competitive wages, suzanne. >> wow. complicated picture there, but yol a lot of people still out of work. some companies can't fill positions. thank you. appreciate it. >>> they're smart, right? they're playful? very intelligent. why would someone want to kill dolphins? we are searching for a killer. e just right. perfection is in the details. ♪ get to holiday fun faster with pillsbury cookie dough. hurry in and try five succulent entrees, like our tender snow crab paired with
ups told us that on the east coast lots of potential workers, they took fema positions to help out with sandy recovery. many of those jobs last longer than what ups can offer. experts say that that's also part of the problem, but the fact that people want to hold out for more permanent better paying jobs, but, susan, one other thing here, the issue of filling positions isn't just in lower paying fields. there's currently a big skilled worker shortage, but one consulting group says it's not that...
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churches need not only to go through fema but have to make sure they get their insurance claims approved and make sure all of their building codes are up-to-date. so a lot of churches simply don't have the resources to rebuild. one of the churches damaged beyond repair was alberta baptist. it has been serving the community in tuscaloosa since the 1920s. since the storm hit congregants were holding sunday services at a church miles away but many say the spirit of service remains on the old site. after a year and a half weighing advantages to another cheaper location, church leaders say god wanted them to stay on the property. >> we felt assured that god wanted us to come back where he planted us in the first place. so it wasn't a casual decision. it was not emotional decision. it was a decision that was based in prayer, based on what we really think god wants us to do. >> reporter: now for the past year-and-a-half they have been holding weekly meetings in a very chilly parking lot and they're looking forward to having a roof over their head jon. jon: when does that happen? when do they ge
churches need not only to go through fema but have to make sure they get their insurance claims approved and make sure all of their building codes are up-to-date. so a lot of churches simply don't have the resources to rebuild. one of the churches damaged beyond repair was alberta baptist. it has been serving the community in tuscaloosa since the 1920s. since the storm hit congregants were holding sunday services at a church miles away but many say the spirit of service remains on the old site....
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fema is much better than it was after katrina, but getting the money on the ground when it matters, that's another one. the third thing i would say is that you need to kind of take a minute and step back, is because your first instinct is to grab that which you knew, that's all you want, you want to go back to exact lly like it was. build it back like it always should have been, but not what might have been built because of bad planning. in new orleans, one of the fundamental things that we did, and by the way, it took us a while to get there because people's homes were destroyed and it was hard. but we got into the conversation that we were not going to build new orleans back like she was, as wonderful a city as she was at the time. katrina didn't cause all of our problems, it just brought the problems to light. we decided that we were going to take a step back and build a city that new orleans always should be. so we're rebuilding to our 300th anniversary in 2018. when it's cold, the poor are colder, and when it's hot, the poor are hotter. and the people who have get back faster than the
fema is much better than it was after katrina, but getting the money on the ground when it matters, that's another one. the third thing i would say is that you need to kind of take a minute and step back, is because your first instinct is to grab that which you knew, that's all you want, you want to go back to exact lly like it was. build it back like it always should have been, but not what might have been built because of bad planning. in new orleans, one of the fundamental things that we...
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coburn: amendment 3371 is a good-government house cleaning for fema. fema determines disasters based on a declaration process that's based on a per capita income, or per capita damage indicator. it has not been revised to account for the effects of inflation. and because we've not revised it, the smaller states actually get more benefit from fema than the larger states. oklahoma has had 25 disaster declarations in the last six years, more than any other state. so what i'm actually proposing won't help my state. it will actually hurt my state. but it is improper for us to continue to use an outmoded number when in fact a small state has the same amount of damage as a large state but the per capita indicator would say it does not meet the requirement. so all i'm requesting is that fema over the next four years update this. it doesn't have any application until 2016. that it gives them time to update it. and that through good government, then we have a better reflection of when we declare a disaster and when we don't as far as the per capita income indica
coburn: amendment 3371 is a good-government house cleaning for fema. fema determines disasters based on a declaration process that's based on a per capita income, or per capita damage indicator. it has not been revised to account for the effects of inflation. and because we've not revised it, the smaller states actually get more benefit from fema than the larger states. oklahoma has had 25 disaster declarations in the last six years, more than any other state. so what i'm actually proposing...